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Radionics

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several techniques supposed to detect and modulate "life forces" and to provide healing using various electric black boxes. uncountable

    "Tiller observes that pendulums, dowsing rods and radionics devices all serve to reduce the signal/noise ratio. They help the average individual who is not blessed with the gifts of concentration that are apparently inherent in gifted healers […]"

  2. 2
    electronics, especially in radio technology. US, historical, rare, uncountable

    "But it's also because the Cambridge is British made by Sinclair Radionics Ltd, Europe's largest calculator manufacturer, with all the cost advantages of scale that this entails."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From radio- (“pertaining to rays or radiation”) + (electr)onics.

Etymology 2

From radio- (“pertaining to radio waves”) + (electr)onics.

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